10/10/2025
14:00 - 15:30
The Reimagine Conservation Pavilion
Session with interpretation
Why attend
Let's explore important questions such as: Whose vision, worldviews, ways of knowing, and values/priorities drive our collective understanding of what conservation "is" and how and by whom it should be done? How can we reimagine NGO and donors’ roles, including to transform/shift power and decision-making?
Session Description
Few conservation concepts evoke as polarised and complex discussions as area-based conservation. In the name of conserving biodiversity, competing concepts of ‘conservation’, ‘effectiveness’, relationships with and responsibilities to the earth, and concepts such as justice and rights, have played out across geographies and scales. Long before area-based conservation emerged as the counterpart to unsustainable development in the form of government-led protected areas; conservation existed for millennia, based on local values, ways of knowing and customary systems that were highly adaptable. While these actors are gaining increasing visibility in global normative frameworks, in many ways the status quo remains unchanged.Organized by
Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy
Partners
Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy